Genome-wide structural variant analysis identifies risk loci for non-Alzheimer’s dementias
Authors: Karri Kaivola, Ruth Chia, Jinhui Ding, Memoona Rasheed, Masashi Fujita, Vilas Menon, Ronald L. Walton, Ryan L. Collins, Kimberley Billingsley, Harrison Brand, Michael Talkowski, Xuefang Zhao, Ramita Dewan, Ali Stark, Anindita Ray, Sultana Solaiman, Pilar Alvarez Jerez, Laksh Malik, Ted M. Dawson, Liana S. Rosenthal, Marilyn S. Albert, Olga Pletnikova, Juan C. Troncoso, Mario Masellis, Julia Keith, Sandra E. Black, Luigi Ferrucci, Susan M. Resnick, Toshiko Tanaka, Eric Topol, Ali Torkamani, Pentti Tienari, Tatiana M. Foroud, Bernardino Ghetti, John E. Landers, Mina Ryten, Huw R. Morris, John A. Hardy, Letizia Mazzini, Sandra D'Alfonso, Cristina Moglia, Andrea Calvo, Geidy E. Serrano, Thomas G. Beach, Tanis Ferman, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Bradley F. Boeve, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Dennis W. Dickson, Adriano Chiò, David A. Bennett, Philip L. De Jager, Owen A. Ross, Clifton L. Dalgard, J. Raphael Gibbs, Bryan J. Traynor, Sonja W. Scholz, Anthony R. Soltis, Coralie Viollet, Gauthaman Sukumar, Camille Alba, Nathaniel Lott, Elisa McGrath Martinez, Meila Tuck, Jatinder Singh, Dagmar Bacikova, Xijun Zhang, Daniel N. Hupalo, Adelani Adeleye, Matthew D. Wilkerson, Harvey B. Pollard, Clifton L. Dalgard, Sandra E. Black, Ziv Gan-Or, Julia Keith, Mario Masellis, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Alexis Brice, Suzanne Lesage, Georgia Xiromerisiou, Andrea Calvo, Antonio Canosa, Adriano Chio, Giancarlo Logroscino, Gabriele Mora, Reijko Krüger, Patrick May, Daniel Alcolea, Jordi Clarimon, Juan Fortea, Isabel Gonzalez-Aramburu, Jon Infante, Carmen Lage, Alberto Lleó, Pau Pastor, Pascual Sanchez-Juan, Francesca Brett, Dag Aarsland, Safa Al-Sarraj, Johannes Attems, Steve Gentleman, John A. Hardy, Angela K. Hodges, Seth Love, Ian G. McKeith, Christopher M. Morris, Huw R. Morris, Laura Palmer, Stuart Pickering-Brown, Mina Ryten, Alan J. Thomas, Claire Troakes, Marilyn S. Albert, Matthew J. Barrett, Thomas G. Beach, Lynn M. Bekris, David A. Bennett, Bradley F. Boeve, Clifton L. Dalgard, Ted M. Dawson, Dennis W. Dickson, Kelley Faber, Tanis Ferman, Luigi Ferrucci, Margaret E. Flanagan, Tatiana M. Foroud, Bernardino Ghetti, J. Raphael Gibbs, Alison Goate, David S. Goldstein, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Horacio Kaufmann, Walter A. Kukull, James B. Leverenz, Grisel Lopez, Qinwen Mao, Eliezer Masliah, Edwin Monuki, Kathy L. Newell, Jose-Alberto Palma, Matthew Perkins, Olga Pletnikova, Alan E. Renton, Susan M. Resnick, Liana S. Rosenthal, Owen A. Ross, Clemens R. Scherzer, Geidy E. Serrano, Vikram G. Shakkottai, Ellen Sidransky, Toshiko Tanaka, Nahid Tayebi, Eric Topol, Ali Torkamani, Juan C. Troncoso, Randy Woltjer, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Sonja W. Scholz, Robert H. Baloh, Robert Bowser, Alexis Brice, James Broach, William Camu, Adriano Chiò, John Cooper-Knock, Carsten Drepper, Vivian E. Drory, Travis L. Dunckley, Eva Feldman, Pietro Fratta, Glenn Gerhard, Summer B. Gibson, Jonathan D. Glass, John A. Hardy, Matthew B. Harms, Terry D. Heiman-Patterson, Lilja Jansson, Janine Kirby, Justin Kwan, Hannu Laaksovirta, John E. Landers, Francesco Landi, Isabelle Le Ber, Serge Lumbroso, Daniel J.L. MacGowan, Nicholas J. Maragakis, Kevin Mouzat, Liisa Myllykangas, Richard W. Orrell, Lyle W. Ostrow, Roger Pamphlett, Erik Pioro, Stefan M. Pulst, John M. Ravits, Wim Robberecht, Ekaterina Rogaeva, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Michael Sendtner, Pamela J. Shaw, Katie C. Sidle, Zachary Simmons, Thor Stein, David J. Stone, Pentti J. Tienari, Bryan J. Traynor, Juan C. Troncoso, Miko Valori, Philip Van Damme, Vivianna M. Van Deerlin, Ludo Van Den Bosch, Lorne Zinman
Journal: Cell Genomics (2023)

We characterized the role of structural variants, a largely unexplored type of genetic variation, in two non-Alzheimer's dementias, namely Lewy body dementia (LBD) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). To do this, we applied an advanced structural variant calling pipeline (GATK-SV) to short-read whole-genome sequence data from 5,213 European-ancestry cases and 4,132 controls. We discovered, replicated, and validated a deletion in